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Grandparents can be frustrating at times?

Everyone here had them. Some even still have them. Grandparents. I only ever knew my Grandmother. Most of us look back on them with affection. I cried at my Grandmothers passing. She was such a sweet lady. She did have an acerbic streak, but only when provoked.
Remember those sayings that used to come from their mouths. Sayings that left me, as an unknowing child, wondering, "What does that mean"?🤔

The cat can look at the Queen
If johnny told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it? My response to this was, " "Who's Johnny "?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. huh?
You would forget your head if it was not screwed on. I had nightmares about this.☹
I'm sure it was only a lick and a promise.
Who's got a bee in their bonnet then?
I'll give you what for.

I look back on these times in awe and a little frustration.
So much could have been learnt if things were explained to us.
My dad frustrated me the most.
When he was venturing out somewhere I would very often ask him,
"Where you going, Dad" ?
He always replied,
"I'm going to see a man about a dog."
I was so excited thinking we were getting a dog.
We never got a dog.🐕
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My great grand mother was 96 when she died and that was twenty years ago so yes I'm familiar with those sayings. She was a wonderful woman. I was lucky to have known her.